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CEQA Failed Us:

How the California Environmental Quality Act Fails the Environment

This article explains why all too frequently CEQA fails to protect wildlife habitat.

The reports that establish potential environmental impacts are written by private consultants hired by the developer. In this process, potential impacts of a project may be slyly downplayed, to make mitigation easier or cheaper.

“It’s a huge conflict of interest to have the developer paying the consultant who’s writing the report,” environmentalist Ralph Kanz said.

Which is why we have obtained legal counsel and need funds to help impeach the sham environmental MND (Mitigated Negative Declaration)document paid for by Santa Barbara County to avoid doing a proper EIR for their $8MM Modoc Road multi-use bike path project.

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Please...contribute if you haven't already done so...any leftover funds will go to the Santa Barbara Land Trust in the name of the Modoc Preserve.

This project will necessitate cutting down up to 63 mature, iconic, and historic trees along Modoc Road. Earth moving equipment, asphalt, and concrete wall construction will degrade the soil in the Modoc Preserve, a stipulation in the Conservation Agreement that is NOT ALLOWED.

Don't fall for the replacement tree trap!

“It takes 35 years to get an 8-inch-diameter oak tree,” he said. “How can you possibly mitigate for the removal of native adult oaks? It can’t be done. The whole thing’s a joke, but it’s what CEQA allows.”

Please help us bring transparency to this project and force CEQA and the Modoc Preserve Conservation Easement Agreement to do what they were designed and intended to do...PROTECT NATURE...

Enacted in 1970, this acclaimed environmental law theoretically ensures that economic development doesn’t compromise the environment. Mitigation measures are the lynchpin of the law.

But many scientists, environmental activists, and attorneys specializing in CEQA say the act’s techniques for protecting natural resources often fail. Its many flaws and shortcomings are veiled from public sight by complex bureaucracy, arduous documents, and dense thickets of legal and technical jargon.

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“The community usually needs to be on their ass to make them do it,” Alan Levine, of the Coast Action Network said.

Another serious flaw in CEQA’s design undermines its efficacy: The reports that establish potential environmental impacts are written by private consultants hired by the developer. In this process, potential impacts of a project may be slyly downplayed, to make mitigation easier or cheaper.

“It’s a huge conflict of interest to have the developer paying the consultant who’s writing the report,” environmentalist Ralph Kanz said.

HELP US DEFEND AND PROTECT THE TREES AND WILDLIFE IN THE MODOC PRESERVE...YOU CAN'T UNCUT A 100+ YEAR OLD TREE.

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